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most citedThe "Little Dark Dot": Evidence for Self-interacting Dark Matter in the Strong Lens SDSS J0946+1006?

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astro-ph.CO2026

Testing the isothermal Jeans model for self-interacting dark matter halos in the collapse phase

Shubo Li, Moritz S. Fischer, Zixiang Jia +3

We benchmark the semi-analytical isothermal Jeans model against a high-resolution isolated N-body simulation that follows a self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) halo into deep core…

astro-ph.CO2025

Not so dark, not so dense: an alternative explanation for the lensing subhalo in SDSSJ0946+1006

Qiuhan He, Andrew Robertson, James W. Nightingale +12

Previous studies of the strong lens system SDSSJ0946+1006 have reported a dark matter subhalo with an unusually high central density, potentially challenging the standard cold dark…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

Probing Dark Matter Substructures with Free-Form Modelling: A Case Study of the `Jackpot' Strong Lens

Xiaoyue Cao, Ran Li, James W. Nightingale +12

Characterising the population and internal structure of sub-galactic halos is critical for constraining the nature of dark matter. These halos can be detected near galaxies that ac…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 2 cited

Galaxy Mass Modelling from Multi-Wavelength JWST Strong Lens Analysis: Dark Matter Substructure, Angular Mass Complexity, or Both?

Samuel C. Lange, Aristeidis Amvrosiadis, James W. Nightingale +8

We analyze two galaxy-scale strong gravitational lenses, SPT0418-47 and SPT2147-50, using JWST NIRCam imaging across multiple filters. To account for angular complexity in the lens…

astro-ph.CO2024

CURLING - I. The Influence of Point-like Image Approximation on the Outcomes of Cluster Strong Lens Modeling

Yushan Xie, Huanyuan Shan, Nan Li +11

Cluster-scale strong lensing is a powerful tool for exploring the properties of dark matter and constraining cosmological models. However, due to the complex parameter space, pixel…